Preference-Ranked Multi-View Event Video Uplink Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to provide moving images that match viewer preferences during events, leading to suboptimal viewing experiences.

Innovation Solution

A network management device that ranks multiple moving images captured by wireless communication terminals, increases uplink throughput for higher-ranked images, and generates an overall video signal for simultaneous reproduction, ensuring higher definition and frame rates without discomfort.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If automatically selected moving images are provided based on predetermined switching conditions, then the system can automatically display moving images of competitors, but the selected moving images do not always match the preferences of the viewer

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic display selectionVSAvoidviewer preference matching
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system collects viewer preferences through input devices and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust and personalize the automatic display selection. The network management device ranks moving images based on both automated criteria and viewer-specific preferences, creating a feedback loop that improves adaptation to individual viewers while maintaining automated operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple moving images are simultaneously provided to match viewer preferences, then the system can offer personalized viewing experiences, but the network bandwidth and transmission capacity are increased

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewer preference matchingVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and transmits only the essential video data required for simultaneous display of multiple moving images. The network management device selectively provides multiple video signals corresponding to ranked moving images, extracting only the necessary information from the event coverage to reduce network bandwidth consumption while maintaining the ability to provide personalized viewing experiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges multiple video signals into an overall video signal that can be transmitted efficiently through the network. By combining the ranked moving images from multiple wireless communication terminals into a single integrated output, the system reduces the total quantity of data transmitted while preserving the capability to display multiple simultaneous views that match viewer preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Manufacturing precision

If uplink throughput is increased for wireless communication terminals providing highly ranked moving images, then the frame rate and definition of reproduced moving images are improved, but the network load and energy consumption are increased

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemoving image definitionVSAvoidnetwork energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies increased uplink throughput selectively only to wireless communication terminals that are providing highly ranked moving images, rather than uniformly increasing throughput for all terminals. This localized quality enhancement ensures high definition and frame rate for the most important video feeds while minimizing network load and energy consumption for less critical transmissions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies excessive action (increased uplink throughput) only partially to the specific terminals providing ranked moving images, rather than to all terminals. This partial application of increased resources achieves high definition reproduction for the selected videos while avoiding the excessive energy consumption that would result from uniformly increasing throughput across the entire network.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12356023B2Simultaneous provision of multiple highly ranked moving images
Publication Date: 2025.07.08 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
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AI summary

A network management device includes a processor which ranks multiple moving images taken by wireless communication terminals simultaneously capturing one of multiple sections in an event venue to select multiple moving images ranked higher for the section. The processor increases uplink throughput for the multiple wireless communication terminals corresponding to the multiple moving images ranked higher for the selected section. The processor generates an overall video signal including multiple video signals corresponding to the multiple wireless communication terminals for which the uplink throughput is increased. The processor supplies the generated overall video signal to at least one reproduction device in which moving images are reproduced. The overall video signal is in a format that enables the reproduction device to simultaneously reproduce the multiple moving images corresponding to the multiple video signals in the overall video signal.